Director: Shekhar Kapur
Two lifelong friends who grew up on the same London street find their views on love pulled in opposite directions once one of them agrees to a family-arranged match, in this 2023 British comedy from director Shekhar Kapur.
What is What's Love Got to Do with It? about?
Zoe and Kaz have been neighbours and close friends since childhood, and now in their thirties they're each figuring out what they actually want from a relationship. Kaz, at his parents' urging, decides to pursue a traditional arranged marriage and travels to Pakistan to meet the woman his family has chosen. Zoe, a documentary filmmaker skeptical of the whole idea, decides to film the process, turning her camera on Kaz's courtship as a way of examining her own assumptions about romance, family expectation, and choice. What starts as a project meant to needle a friend's decision slowly becomes a mirror for Zoe's own uncertainty about love, pulling both of them toward questions neither expected to confront.
Cast & crew
Lily James and Shazad Latif carry the central friendship with an easy, bantering chemistry, while Shabana Azmi and Emma Thompson add texture as the older generation weighing tradition against their children's independence. Sajal Ali plays the woman introduced to Kaz through the arranged-match process, giving the film's central debate a voice of its own rather than leaving it one-sided.
Context & significance
Director Shekhar Kapur, working from a script that treats arranged marriage as a genuine, debatable choice rather than a punchline, sets the story between London and Lahore, using that split to contrast two ways of thinking about commitment. At just under two hours, the film moves at a breezy romantic-comedy pace while still making room for its more serious cross-generational conversations.
Where & how to watch
A Persian-dubbed version of the film is available, so viewers who prefer Farsi audio can watch it that way. Streaming requires only a free K-Time account; this page can be read without signing in first. K-Time's whole experience, from the interface to recommendations, is built around Farsi-speaking audiences.